DEV STD C10 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Working Poor, Social Stratification, Endogamy
10 Feb 2017
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Dangers of thinking of poverty through indices. Film linked people to processes, how you can"t fully see poverty thorough numbers. Power, social relations, poverty in annawadi, mumbai: not everyone is equally poor, it is an organized society. Caste: varna class , jati division , ascribed social stratification, endogamy, hereditary, occupations. Scheduled castes and scheduled tribes: official designations given to various groups of historically disadvantaged people, they now have some political representations. Scheduled castes, tribes, and obcs: religious identification, gender elements. Paul collier: the bottom billion and poverty traps. The conflict trap: falling into civil war, reasons for war = poverty , slow growth, dependence. Poverty as a condition measured by indications. To study poverty you only have to study poor people. The success of some is based on the failure of others . A political economy of durable poverty consists of. Power as domination: you are able to force your will upon others. Agenda setting power: if/how poverty is politicized.
